Opening Ceremony of the Huawei - HKUST Innovation Laboratory

Huawei-HKUST Innovation Laboratory was set up to enhance and accelerate
long-term research between industry and university. To mark the official
launch of the laboratory, an opening ceremony was held on 16 April 2009 at
HKUST. Representatives of Huawei and HKUST were here to witness the
official opening of the Lab. The commemorative plaque was revealed by the
co-directors and representatives from the 2 parties after a collaboration
agreement was signed.

Funded by Huawei, full-time staff from Huawei including senior research
scientists will be working closely with HKUST faculty, students and other
research staff on joint research projects. The primary research interests
of the innovation lab include hardware, software, physical layer
technologies, wireless system technologies as well as networking and
applications.

Dr. Qian ZHANG, one of the co-directors of Huawei-HKUST Innovation
Laboratory, remarked at the ceremony, "I'm very excited to establish this
collaboration with Huawei. I believe we will be having a lot of
breakthroughs in technologies in the future."